What a Google Study Says Contributes To An Effective Workplace Team

It’s a question every good manager asks: “How can I make my team most effective?”

Now, what “effective” means depends on your industry, team role (“effective” means different things for a marketing team than it means for an IT team, for example), and your organization’s goals.

But I think we can all agree that if your team doesn’t work well together, then however you define success won’t matter!

Google recently put together a study to gather data on what makes a team effective. The researchers identified team effectiveness through four criteria that are, for the most part, universal measurements across most industries, mostly because there is a human component to 3/4 of the criteria: